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Sandra Knapp

@SandyKnapp

Taxonomist of tomatoes, potatoes etc. #iamabotanist

London Katılım Ocak 2011
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Sandra Knapp@SandyKnapp·
Was absolutely the best of fun! And to complete your potato week new paper on origin of the mighty spud out in @CellCellPress cell.com/cell/fulltext/…
Infinite Monkey Cage@themonkeycage

This week @ProfBrianCox & Robin Ince bring together a mash made in heaven! @SusanCalman @SandyKnapp & Glenn Bryan peel back the surprising science of the mighty spud 🥔 they uncover genomes, wild species..plus a potato keyboard finale you never knew you needed!!

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Infinite Monkey Cage
Infinite Monkey Cage@themonkeycage·
This week @ProfBrianCox & Robin Ince bring together a mash made in heaven! @SusanCalman @SandyKnapp & Glenn Bryan peel back the surprising science of the mighty spud 🥔 they uncover genomes, wild species..plus a potato keyboard finale you never knew you needed!!
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Vinita Gowda: Success has never been my weakness
Vinita Gowda: Success has never been my weakness@vinita_gowda·
It's finally out! We desceibe 6 Globba species new to science from 3 different states where one is named #paschimBengalensis - no guesses there! And our 2nd species from the lab named after #JanakiAmmal #GlobbaJanakiae Also, a key to all Indian Globbas for the Ginger nerds!
PhytoKeys@PhytoKeys

Six new species of the dancing girl ginger Globba from India. The study highlights the need for taxonomic studies in these highly biodiverse areas and provides notes and recommendations on the taxonomic challenges in this ecologically sensitive region. doi.org/10.3897/phytok…

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Roger Horton
Roger Horton@Roger_TL45Y·
@SandyKnapp @BSBIbotany @SuffolkBIS Expedition to Black/Green Nightshade site today curtailed when I cleared straw so as to kneel and photo Henbane and discovered a *small* plant with berries! 🤗Solanum triflorum at location where I've not seen it before. #Suffolk #Brecks
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Sandra Knapp@SandyKnapp·
@FionaJMcWillia2 Yep! Frightful isn’t it! But it was a great gardening day with the community!
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Dr Erica McAlister
Dr Erica McAlister@flygirlNHM·
What on earth is this??? Partner attempted to watch #Jungle - true story based on Yossi Ghinsberg being lost in the Bolivian jungle. This is the scene with him removing a ‘botfly’ BOTFLY?????? That’s an earthworm? What???? #TaxonomicFail
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Sophien Kamoun
Sophien Kamoun@KamounLab·
Famous plant biologists
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Sandra Knapp@SandyKnapp·
The importance and wonderfulness of enthusiastic botanists confirmed (if it ever needed confirming 🌷) congratulations all @BSBIbotany members for all your finds!!!
BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland@BSBIbotany

Huge thanks to top environmental journalist @horton_official for covering the #GhostOrchid story in today's @guardian theguardian.com/environment/ar… Congrats to @thenewgalaxy on refinding this most elusive of orchids & to @BSBIscience who visited the (secret) site to verify the find.

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Roger Horton
Roger Horton@Roger_TL45Y·
@SandyKnapp @BSBIbotany @SuffolkBIS Thanks. I've been back a couple of times & looked at second sp. calyx-lobes shorter than berry so agree nitidibaccatum. Both spp. intermixed in tractor tracks so plenty of chance of hybids. Nearby potatoe field overrun with triflorum last year but no sign this, in winter barley.
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Sandra Knapp@SandyKnapp·
@BSBIbotany @Roger_TL45Y @SuffolkBIS Big picture is nigrum … other ones are Solanum nitidibaccatum Bitter -sorry, I pushed post too soon! Those two hybridise in 🇬🇧 sometimes….
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Science Magazine
Science Magazine@ScienceMagazine·
A new study in Science finds that some of the independent origins of plant prickles share a common genetic basis, providing a gene editing target to facilitate the removal of these sharp projections in cultivated plants. 📄: scim.ag/7VQ
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Chris Thorogood
Chris Thorogood@thorogoodchris1·
Porcupine tomatoes (Solanum pyracanthos) don't mess about on self defence:
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YeeWen Low (刘 逸 汶)
YeeWen Low (刘 逸 汶)@yeewenlow·
@SandyKnapp @timutteridge @PhytoKeys A genus that I have followed closely… rarely collected and managed to ID an indet here at SING thrown in Rubiaceae 😅 Here is an epiphytic individual high up on a tree in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, photographed in May.
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